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Originally Posted by fotze
That assumes everyone works downtown. Not so. If you like in Tuscany and work in Crowfoot or from home, that is no different from living in Sunnyside and working in Sunnyside.
Also commuting isn't necessarily the only way to judge your cost to the city. Also, your burden to society has never been related to your tax bill. i.e. income tax, WDF does that have to do with what you cost the society?
The municipal tax system is unfair but so is every tax system.
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Yeah but not every tax system artificially favours one consumer choice over another.
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Originally Posted by Shazam
This will disappoint a lot of people, but suburban communities actually do pay for themselves. And infrastructure downtown is constantly updated.
How about far flung but really old suburbs like Canyon Meadows, Lakeview, Bonavista and Silver Springs? Do they get tax breaks too?
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Actually they don't. They do partially, but that pretty much means that they don't. And yeah, suburbs that are paid for already should also pay less than brand new communities.
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Originally Posted by Shazam
This has been brought up over and over, and yet city reps keep saying that expanding communities pay for themselves. I mean, how else could it work long-term?
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It won't. It works for the developers, but it doesn't work for the city or for buyers. That's why the city needs to do something about it. You think forever expanding outwards is sustainable?